ReadWriteWeb
Xing is one of the top business social networks in the market today, especially in Europe. But the new features they're touting for the paid Premium users are grossly underwhelming. In general terms, the platform is solid. The free functionality is more than adequate for the kind of networking you'll do on LinkedIn or any o (Read More)
: Putting Xing's feature set into perspective with other services. It may sound hard, but often it's a good ideas to open the eyes to see what the competitors on international market offer.
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
Linkedin, the biggest online social network has, as of January 15th decided to "limit" how many Linkedin connections one can have. This afternoon I had aconversation with Steven Burda, the "Mother Theresa" of social networking, Steven told me that Linkedin is now limiting him and the rest of the business people on Linkedin (Read More)
TechCrunch
Facebook just turned 5 years old. But a week that should have been filled with reflection and good times was instead marred by a series of breaking news reports detailing sex scandals, phishing, and other malicious activity on the world’s largest social network. In his blog post announcing the 5-year milestone, foun (Read More)
: a reminder for us all that amonsgst us good folks, there are people out there with a different agenda - using our cool tools for negative use. 1% sounds better, 1.5m sounds terrible! we have to be able to do more..
Delicious/cityrat59
Sure, the Twitter guys still have no idea how to make money off their fabulous invention. But for now they are living in a dreamworld of infinite possibilities, maybe the last one on Earth. (Read More)
: This was actually a really good article. They clear up some of the speculation around how they're going to make money.Their still elusive on the issue, but the direction they're going is starting to take shape. I'm glad they made it clear that they have no desire to for individual user's to ever have to pay for the service.
Industry Standard Breaking News
LinkedIn has quietly clamped down on a controversial association known as the LinkedIn open networkers (LIONs), a group of LinkedIn members who liberally add contacts - known on LinkedIn as "connections" - even if they don't know each of the people personally. The group's strategy runs counter to LinkedIn's official policy, (Read More)